It's a demoralization tactic from the old USSR days as well as a way to signal ingroup status, the more ridiculous the better
Far more demoralizing to have to go along with an obvious falsehood. Why did they riot over st fentynl and not eric gardner or breonna taylor? Because floyd was far worse of a person and his death far more defensible. This actually makes it more useful to display your 'virtue'. When even the republicans were tutting when eric and breonna died it's useless to a lefty. There's no social capital to be gained, no way to prove how lunatic left you are, by rallying for those people, so there was no grand riot. It needed a monster who pointed guns at pregnant women, now here's a good test of loyalty with the regime.
A dumb cause is in fact more useful to them, a better test of 'virtue'
It's a demoralization tactic from the old USSR days as well as a way to signal ingroup status, the more ridiculous the better
Far more demoralizing to have to go along with an obvious falsehood. Why did they riot over st fentynl and not eric gardner or breonna taylor? Because floyd was far worse of a person and his death far more defensible. This actually makes it more useful to display your 'virtue'. When even the republicans were tutting when eric and breonna died it's useless to a lefty. There's no social capital to be gained, no way to prove how lunatic left you are, by rallying for those people, so there was no grand riot. It needed a monster who pointed guns at pregnant women, now here's a good test of loyalty with the regime.
A dumb cause is in fact more useful to them, a better test of 'virtue'